Daily News<\/em><\/a> has had to say.<\/p>\nThis is not about \u201cprayer shaming.\u201d It is about shaming those who pray with guns held tightly in their hands, holding the nation hostage, as those of us who do not share their love for implements made for killing seek to make our nation a safer place.<\/p>\n
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The Mike Luckovich cartoon above should help explain (to the deliberately obtuse who claim not to understand) why people who say \u201cstop praying and do something\u201d are not opposed to prayer per se, but are saying yet again that prayer without action is meaningless, much as the Letter of James says faith without works is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":32581,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,163],"tags":[2174,4274,6197,6390,7799,9411,10739,11167,11230,11232],"class_list":["post-32582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-progressive-christianity-religion","tag-control","tag-gun","tag-killing","tag-laws","tag-murder","tag-prayer","tag-san-bernardino","tag-shaming","tag-shooting","tag-shootings"],"yoast_head":"\n
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